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Fast Forward U.S. Census May Add Controversial ‘Israeli’ Category
Does being Jewish mean being part of a race? Or a religion? What ethnicity are Jews? Many American Jews have found these questions difficult to answer every 10 years, when a census taker knocks on the door as part of the decennial national head count. The only choices: “white, black or Asian” for race and,…
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Opinion Will ‘Jewish Quarter’ Win Over Egyptians — or Backfire?
Today is the first day of Ramadan. In the Arab world, that means fasting and praying and post-sunset binging. It also means lots and lots of TV. Among the many soap operas aired around this time each year to entertain Muslims as they break fast, there have been plenty featuring anti-Semitic tropes. Plot lines referencing…
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Fast Forward Extremists Arrested for Attack on Famed Church of Loaves and Fishes
An arson attack on Thursday gutted part of a church at the traditional site of what Christianity reveres as Jesus’s miracle of the feeding of the 5,000 on the shore of the Sea of Galilee, the Israeli fire brigade said. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered Israel’s Shin Bet internal security service to launch a top-priority…
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Fast Forward Congress Condemns Academic Boycott of Israel
The U.S. House of Representatives introduced a resolution condemning academic boycotts against Israeli scholars and institutions on American campuses. The resolution, introduced Tuesday by Rep. Carlos Curbelo (R-Fla.), condemns any restrictions on interaction between American and Israeli academic institutions as part of the Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions movement. “Efforts to uniquely isolate Israeli institutions and…
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News Israel’s Druze Call for Rescue of Embattled Syrian Brethren
Days after Jihadi insurgents in Syria slaughtered at least 20 Druze citizens not far from Israel’s border in mid-June, residents of Hurfeish, a village in Northern Israel, streamed to their town square on foot, horseback and bicycle, waving the bright rainbow flag of their religious sect, pledging to save their brethren. Fearing a looming genocide,…
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Fast Forward Israel Cuts Funds From Critical Palestinian Theater
Israel froze state funding on Tuesday for an Arab theater whose play about jailed Palestinians angered the right, fueling accusations that the government aims to suppress productions it deems pro-Palestinian. Culture Minister Miri Regev, who has threatened to divert money from institutions seeking to “hurt the state,” said that irregularities discovered in al-Midan theater’s finances…
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Fast Forward Stephen Curry’s Mother Says Israel Trip Transformed Her
The mother of Stephen Curry, the NBA’s Most Valuable Player, said a trip to Israel five years ago transformed her and sparked her interest in learning Hebrew. Sonya Curry told Israel’s Sport 5 channel in an interview after Game 5 of the NBA Finals in Oakland, California, on Sunday night that her son’s basketball success…
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Fast Forward White House Denies Inviting Bibi for Talks After Iran Deadline
An Israeli newspaper said President Barack Obama has invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for talks in Washington next month after a deadline for reaching a nuclear agreement with Iran. But the White House denied the report. A spokesman for Netanyahu’s office had no immediate official comment on the report. Officials speaking on condition of…
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